#Sad but #true

#Survival of Eurasian #lynx in the human-dominated landscape of #Europe

#OpenAccess
#ConservationBiology

#IllegalKilling was the main cause of #mortality (33.8%), and mortality rates were similar in protected and hunted populations (8.6% and 7.0% per year, respectively). Due to the low natural mortality rates in protected and hunted populations, #anthropogenic causes of mortality are likely close to additive, such that maintaining or increasing refuge #habitat with little human #disturbance is critical to lynx #conservation.

https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.14439